Jim Giles, then of Nature Publishing Group, details his Nature publication of factual errors in Wikipedia vs. Encyclopaedia Britannica:

Giles, J. Internet Encyclopaedias Go Head to Head. Nature 2005, 438, 900-901. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/438900a

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